[Momo waves in greeting as he gets up to where the other man is walking, before his hand returns with the other to rest in his pockets for the moment. While the people he's been talking to are quite nice, he hasn't failed to notice the ones who seem to be eying the newcomers more as potential theft targets. It's probably a good thing he's so used to being followed he can smell it from a mile away now.]

Do they? I guess I missed that. I have seen some kinda weird food down here, but I guess you get what you can get when you live underground. [The ones he's spotted are more of the questionable fungus variety. He's going to have to eat something down here if he has to stay long enough for the audience to happen, but between bugs and fungi it's not looking the most promising.] Found out any fun gossip? I've been trying to get a good picture of things down here, but the shopkeepers seem to really like their gossip in-between the facts.

[He needs to settle on what's useful to ask the Matriarch, and that means finding out as much as he can through normal means before he goes to see her.]